Murray Bramwell
Now two weekends into a four week season, the Adelaide Fringe continues to expand. In its amorphous, uncurated way it grows ever more confident and inclusive and the citizens love it. Even before the calendar page has officially turned to “Mad March” the city is feeling festive. The nights are warm, and everyone is out strolling to bars, cafes, eateries – and to see a show.
There is plenty to choose from. Adelaide has the second biggest Fringe …
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Cut
by Duncan Graham
Presented by Hannah Norris
Holden Street Theatres. Until March 14.
Mush and Me
by Karla Crome
Lip Sink Theatre
Holden Street Theatres. Until March 15.
Destroyer of Worlds
by Caleb Lewis
Rock Surfers Theatre Company
Tuxedo Cat, 54 Hyde Street.
Until February 28.
Bookings : adelaidefringe.com
Fringetix phone : 1300 621 255.
The Fringe in Adelaide is misnamed. It doesn’t skirt the edges of the city, it envelopes it. For four weeks the …
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Adelaide Fringe 2014
Murray Bramwell
The Adelaide Fringe is like a shoebox full of grasshoppers. And it keeps getting voraciously bigger and busier. Second only in size and influence to the Edinburgh Fringe (on which it was modelled forty four years ago), the Fringe went annual in 2008 and each year has set new records for attendance and box office. In 2014, the Fringe has more than 970 events scattered across the Adelaide inner city …
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February 14 – March 16
The voluminous Adelaide Fringe opened last Friday. Defying recent torrential rain large crowds lined the streets for the night parade of performers and floats including a luminous disco cuttlefish. With a record 978 shows, including 473 Australian premieres, and box office at record levels, this vast, uncurated festival, second only to the Edinburgh extravaganza, transforms the Adelaide CBD into carnival.
New this year is the raffishly named Royal Croquet Club celebrating the …
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Adelaide Fringe 2013
February 15 – March 17
Second only to its Edinburgh counterpart, the annual Adelaide Fringe, now running over four weeks, has an uncurated program of over 900 events – gathering exponents of cabaret, circus, dance, music, and theatre, as well as hosting more than 360 comedy acts, many limbering up for the next leg to Melbourne.
Household names and talented newcomers alike, Fringe artists generate an energy, skill and enthusiasm which captivates audiences and galvanises …
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Adelaide Fringe 2012
Adelaide Fringe
Bookings : FringeTix, 1300 FRINGE
February 24 – March 18
It is an understatement to say the Adelaide Fringe is thriving, its continued expansion is simply extraordinary. Last year’s program set new records with 729 listed events, and now, in 2012, it has ramped up to 923. In these cautious, even gloomy times, nothing, it seems, is deterring artists – aspiring and established – from putting on a show.
Celebrating ten years …
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2011 Adelaide Fringe
February 18 – March 13
After more than three frenetic weeks of activity the Adelaide Fringe has come to a close, leaving the hundreds of artists and supporters to reflect on their fortunes, both creative and financial. With an uncurated smorgasbord of 759 events (405 of them Australian premieres) audiences have had a busy job finding the truffles. According to Fringe Director Greg Clarke, 2011 has even surpassed last year’s box office total …
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February 25
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2011 Adelaide Fringe
February 18 – March 13
Bookings : FringeTIX – 1300 FRINGE (1300 374 643)
The 2011 Adelaide Fringe program is again bulging with events – not quite 200 in cabaret and theatre, and more than 200 comedy acts – some 750 in all.
The UK theatre invasion has begun winningly at Holden Street Theatres with Bound, Bear Trap Theatre’s saga of a North Sea fishing boat. Written by Jesse Briton, and performed …
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February 27 to March 22
Bookings : FringeTIX – 1300 FRINGE (1300 374 643)
The Adelaide Fringe can surely claim it has something for everyone. Like its Scottish sibling in Edinburgh, and on almost the same scale, uncurated and unexpurgated the Fringe opens its wide arms to all and any. Its sheer size is extraordinary. This year saw more than 500 events listed at an incredible 259 venues. It seems like every nook, cranny, car park, derelict …
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Twenty three days and 187,000-plus tickets later, the Adelaide Fringe has folded its tent, assembled its caravan and gone its diverse ways. In fact, by now it seems as if it has dematerialized – as if the Garden of Unearthly Delights in Rundle Park was never there, nor the comedy queues in Angas Street, nor for that matter, the flurry around any one of the 259 venues which have hosted this sprawling mega-event.
Director Christie Anthoney can be …
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